Daimler Truck North America and Walmart have teamed up to test Freightliner’s new Cascadia diesel electric hybrid truck. The truck, built by Daimler’s Freightliner, is a standard Cascadia tractor with the addition of Daimler’s proprietary hybrid system, in a parallel configuration, developed at the company’s Global Hybrid Center in Japan. The trucks are Walmart spec’d [...]
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MythBusters TV Show Gets New Hybrid Freightliner
October 9th, 2010 
Aaron Turpen The popular Discovery Channel television show, MythBusters, has taken delivery of a customized Freightliner Business Class M2 106 Hybrid for use in day-to-day operations on the show. The truck is capable of getting 25 to 40% better mileage than its diesel-only counterpart and features some custom body builds for the show’s needs. The diesel electric [...]
UPS Purchases 130 Hybrid Vehicles
October 1st, 2010 Aaron Turpen UPS has announced that they are purchasing another 130 next-generation hybrid electric vehicles to add to their alt-fuel vehicle fleet. The 130 vehicles increase their hybrid-electric fleet by an additional 52%. The additions are in two sizes and both come from Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) with Eaton’s hybrid drive system. The 130 hybrids will [...]
DAF Puts LF Hybrid Into Production Using Eaton and PACCAR Systems
October 1st, 2010 Aaron Turpen DAF, the Dutch division of PACCAR, announced at the IAA 2010 show in Hanover that they will be going to production with the LF45 parallel hybrid, 12-tonne truck also called the DAF LF Hybrid. The truck was developed in close collaboration with Eaton, whose hybrid power train is an integral part of the truck’s diesel [...]
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